This is one of the funniest movies ! Steve Martin not only was perfect as Navin, but he also wrote it.
So what happened to Steve Martin ? He hasn't been in anything which is even in the same league as this ! I don't even bother with his movies anymore.
Yeah I always waited and waited for a sequel to this to find out they already made it in the 80's .....and it sucked!!!
shareCheck out "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles", "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels", or "The Three Amigos". The first of the three afforemntioned might be one of the funniest flicks ever. The F-word montage alone makes it worth viewing. And, although Steve has chosen to do more commercially plausible films in the past several years, he is still able to make movies like "Cheaper by the Dozen" at least watchable.
"He was trying to fool, Lloyd Braun!"
Check out "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles", "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels", or "The Three Amigos".
Yeah I think "Bowfinger" was a return to "Jerk" form
shareWhile I love The Jerk, I think The Man With Two Brains is the funniest of his movies.
shareI agree The Man With Two Brains was great!
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I vaguely remember that one. Isn't that the one where there's a brain that talks to him? By the way I really like him in A Simple twist of fate. It's actually one of my favorite Steve Martin Movies. Very underrated.
Kelloway: Doyle, get in the car.
Doyle: But I ordered Onion Rings.
Kelloway: Doyle!
IMO Martin lost his edge when he stopped working with Carl Reiner. He made some good one afterwards (PARENTHOOD, ROXANNE, PLANE, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES, BOWFINGER) but none at the level of what he and Reiner did together.
shareHe got old and lost his touch happens to the best of us but when an actor goes slowly downhill the whole country has to see it.
sharei've seen planes tranes and amobiles.. indeed, a HILARIOUS movie.. yes, mr skandl is right, the fword "montage" is definetly the best part. i rewound it over 30 times..
What about Roxanne or My Blue Heaven?? I thought both of those movies were hilarious.
shareOn the other hand, most people I knew at the time, myself included, thought they both sucked. Martin definitely put out a string of stinkers, but his newer movies seem to have made a major improvement. The guy is so hilarious, it's too bad the movies were so sappy. Even parts of The Jerk were kind of lame, but the rest of the movie was so good, it was saved. I think a lot of times the movies were brought down by other people... like Bernadette Peters and Lily Tomlin--both of whom are great, but IMO, one buzz killer is trying to incorporate musical numbers into a movie that was doing just fine without them to begin with.
Although Bernadette Peters playing the trumpet was pretty funny.
Bowfinger was hiliarious. Check out Novacane. Its not a comedy, buts a great flick nontheless.
shareWith all these mentions of Steve's old movies I can't believe no one has brought up Parenthood. It's brilliant! Both serious and heartfelt at times as well as funny. I appreciate it even more now that I'm a parent myself.
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles is very good. One of Martins best, probably John Candy's best. Very watchable.
..."We all have it coming kid"...
Number one, the character Steve played in this movie was named Navin, not Nathan. Number two, if you don't think Martin has been in anything better than this, you need to check out ROXANNE, ALL OF ME, THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS, GRAND CANYON, and LEAP OF FAITH among others. ROXANNE especially...he is nothing short of brilliant in that film.
share" you need to check out ROXANNE, ALL OF ME, THE MAN WITH TWO BRAINS, GRAND CANYON, and LEAP OF FAITH among others. ROXANNE especially...he is nothing short of brilliant in that film."
i've seen them all & none of them come close to The Jerk.
Well, you are entitled to your opinion,and I as much as I love THE JERK, I think he was brilliant in ROXANNE.
shareI really liked "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" (one of the best movies ever - what a story!) and "All of Me" (funny and sweet). "Father of the Bride" was pretty darned good, too.
shareI forgot about DIRTY ROTTEN SCOUNDRELS...that movie was a lot of fun...Steve Martin and Michael Caine as a comedy team? Who could have foreseen that?
shareI like Dirty Rotten Scoundrels also ! But imo, that was the rare standout in his career ever since The Jerk.
shareomg i was just about to post the exact same thing!....
sharei cant stand all his new super gay family movies...and lets not even mention pink panther....
shareI like many Steve Martin movies more than The Jerk. You're entitled to your opinion YourDarkStar, but it's just that, an opinion. I think he was at his best with All of Me, L.A. Story, and, yes, Dirty Scoundrels, Plains, Trains..., Roxanne; and he was good too in Father of the Bride and Bowfinger. And then, aside from comedy, I liked Leap of Faith and Shopgirl.
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Leap of Faith? I thought that movie would have been hilarious but it turned out so depressing. Everytime I see a Steve Martin movie i geet so depressed because I keep thinking it will be like "The Jerk" (funny) "Plains, Trains..." was OK though, but nothing like "the Jerk"
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I could be quite wrong about my observation but it seems an exceptional artist or entertainer or what have you is at his or her peak with a generation or two or three and then a connection is lost due to age and the changing times. I could be wrong. Or I could be right....or somewhere there in the middle ground.
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